Are Amazon SES SMTP credentials required when using SES Key and Secret?

I've been following the documentation to try sending email via Amazon SES and getting following errror:

Swift_TransportException (530)
Expected response code 250 but got code "530", with message "530 5.7.1 Authentication required "

I'm guessing that Laravel's SwiftMailer is having problems authenticating with SES. Here's my setup:

I've an IAM setup with FullSESAccess policy.
In App/Services.php, I've setup

'ses' => [
        'key' => env('MY-AweS0me-KeY'),
        'secret' => env('the-secret-key'),
        'region' => 'us-east-1',
    ],

I think this should suffice. I checked a few other threads that say you need to include SMTP credentials. I'm not sure if I really have to.

If that's not the problem, what could be causing this issue?

martinbean

8 years ago

Level 80

@thebigk You should generate an access key and secret for a user in your AWS console, that has permissions to send emails via SES. You’ll then need to update your MAIL_DRIVER environment variable to ses, as it looks like you’re still trying to send emails via SMTP from the given error message.

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thebigk

8 years ago

Level 13

@martinbean - Just got it working a few seconds ago. Here's what I did:

Mail Driver was set to SES from the .env file. Also set my SES API key and secret in it.
I had to clear cache php artisan cache:clear and php artisan config:clear and also restart valet.

Can now send mails. It's unbelievably easy and cool!

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